Back or lining for fireplaces



(No Model.) I

, W. E. FITCH.

BACK 0B. LINING FOR FIRE-PLACES. No. 479,103. Patented July 19, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. FITCH, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BACK OR LINING FOR FIREPLACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,103, dated July 19, 1892.

Application filed February 24, 1892. Serial No. 422,671. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. FITCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Backs or Linings for Fireplaces, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The Object of this invention is to facilitate the setting of the backs or linings offireplaces, so as to require unskilled or less skilled labor than is now commonly necessary, and also to provide for the application of its top and for ready and inexpensive repairing of such backs or linings.

The invention consists of a fireplace back or lining having inwardly-projecting flanges made integral with its rear and side walls to receive the top, which latter comprises removable dampers and a cross-piece, all as I will proceed now particularly to set forth and finally claim. i

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a rear elevation; Fig. 2, a vertical section; Figs. 3 and 4, plans of the dampers detached. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional detail of a preferred form of hinge and stop for the dampers, and Fig. 6 a plan View of these last-named parts.

I prefer to make the rear and side walls a b, respectively, in one casting and with the inturned top flanges c 61, respectively. The

walls are provided, also, with the fillet e to rej, substantially in the manner indicated in Figs. 5 and 6. A cross-piece k is provided with shouldered ends to overlap the side flanges d, and it is bolted to such side flanges, as at Z, so as to be readily removed when warped or burned out or otherwise damaged. This cross-piece is provided with holes m and stop-lugs n to co-operate, respectively, with hooks 0 and the back of the damper r. I do not, however, limit my invention to this or any other form of connection by which the dampers are hinged to the top, although I prefer this form of connection, because of its simplicity, strength, and economy. It will be manifest that a fireplace-back constructedin this way may be very readily set and by unskilled labor, and that repairs may be readily effected. The removability of the top is advantageous, also, in that it admits of a workman getting above the back to plaster up the arch and affix the connecting-wires.

hat I claim is 1. A back or lining for fireplace-grates, having the inturned flanges o d on the upper or top edges of its rear and side walls, respectively, and a removable top secured thereto, substantially as described.

2. A back or lining for fireplace-grates, having rear and side Walls, each of which is constructed with an integral flange at its top and projecting inwardly, combined with a removable top composed of a cross-piece bolted to the side Walls, flanges, and hinged dampers, substantially as described.

3. A back orlining for fireplace-grates, having rear and side walls, each of which is constructed with an integral flange projecting inwardly, combined with a removable top composed of a cross-piece bolted to the flanges of the side walls, a damper hinged to such crosspiece, and a damper hinged to the flange of the rear wall, substantially as described.

'In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of February, A. D. 1892.

\VILLIAM E. FITCH.

Witnesses:

E. O. NEWBOLD, W. T. HALE. 

